The word
strategy is derived indirectly from the Greek, strategos, meaning
'general', and to many it is still narrowly associated with 'generalship'
or 'the art of the general'. But as war and society have become
more complicated that view has been challenged by the view which
holds that strategy is an inherent quality of statecraft at all
times, in peace and war

Strategos
An ancient Greek word translates literally as "the
General's art". From the ancient Greek, through military
to modern business usage, the word retains much of its original
meaning 